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theTutor
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

get_temporary_link with zip files causing Google Chrome warning

Hi   Google Chrome (83, Mac) has started giving me a 'Dangerous File' warning whenever trying to download zip files specifically served by the 'get_temporary_link' API call. I have 'Safe Browsing...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    This should be fixed now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues like this.

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theTutor
Explorer | Level 3

Thanks for the reply. If it helps, I've copied the headers below for the same file downloaded through Amazon S3 (which was considered safe by Google), their headers are more 'threadbare'.

 

But I agree, ultimately this seems down to some internal logic at Google, and while I will report this I wonder if Dropbox could also report this themseleves, considering this is an issue that you've independantly confirmed and one that is likely to affect all dropbox customers using this API call (and potentially other API calls) for delivering zip files?

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: 7MxPN6hDhv+Rmb9kvfQN64Z2WnSeGI5jhHvP2s6OGpSo7B4ORWyFQ/A+TnOzkTtqN8AAKnj6He0=
x-amz-request-id: A1EA9FD1D0064990
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:32:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:31:27 GMT
ETag: "72b5b016974907dcadc1644b08ff28c6-4"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: application/zip
Content-Length: 60328012
Server: AmazonS3

 

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks! Yes, we're also looking into what we may be able to do about it on our side. I'll follow up here with any updates.

  • aciid's avatar
    aciid
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    any update on this please?

    I got a lot of complaints about this.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      5 years ago

      aciid No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this yet. I'll follow up here once I do.

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        5 years ago

        This should be fixed now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues like this.

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